The Wisdom of Being ReligiousRivington, 1819 - 189 sivua |
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Sivu x
... . § I. The imputation of Credulity , or believing those things for which we have no sufficient reason , and consequently of which we can have no good assurance . 117 § II . The imputation of Singularity , the affectation X ANALYSIS .
... . § I. The imputation of Credulity , or believing those things for which we have no sufficient reason , and consequently of which we can have no good assurance . 117 § II . The imputation of Singularity , the affectation X ANALYSIS .
Sivu 69
... assurance in men that there is one . For , whence should this fear come ? It must be either from without , from the suggestion of others who first tell us there is such a being and then our fear believes it , or else it must arise from ...
... assurance in men that there is one . For , whence should this fear come ? It must be either from without , from the suggestion of others who first tell us there is such a being and then our fear believes it , or else it must arise from ...
Sivu 85
... yet have we an undoubted assurance of them , when they are proved by the best arguments that things of that kind will bear . No man OF BEING RELIGIOUS./ 85 requires more evidence for things than they are capable § IV.
... yet have we an undoubted assurance of them , when they are proved by the best arguments that things of that kind will bear . No man OF BEING RELIGIOUS./ 85 requires more evidence for things than they are capable § IV.
Sivu 86
... assurance that it is as we could possibly have supposing it were , we ought not in reason to make any doubt of the exist- ence of that thing . Now to apply this to the present case . The being of a God is not mathemati- cally ...
... assurance that it is as we could possibly have supposing it were , we ought not in reason to make any doubt of the exist- ence of that thing . Now to apply this to the present case . The being of a God is not mathemati- cally ...
Sivu 87
... assurance that there is a God , as the nature of the thing to be proved is capable of ; and as we could in reason expect to have , supposing that he were . For let us suppose there were such a Being as an Infinite Spirit , clothed with ...
... assurance that there is a God , as the nature of the thing to be proved is capable of ; and as we could in reason expect to have , supposing that he were . For let us suppose there were such a Being as an Infinite Spirit , clothed with ...
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ages ancient apprehension arguments Aristotle assurance believe BEST KNOWLEDGE Bishop of Salisbury Book of Job book of Proverbs cause chance Christ conceive conse consider contrary contrived creatures credible danger Deity demonstration deny departing from evil deride difficulties Diodorus Siculus discourse Divine duty earth endeavour Ennius Epicurean eternity evidence excellent express the whole fair proofs fections folly frame gion give greatest happen happiness hath heaven holy imagined immortal impiety intelligent principle interest kind ledge ligion likewise live Lucretius lusts man's mankind matter Maximus Tyrius ment metonymy mind misery Moses nature never notion opinion perfections phrases pretence of proof pretend principles of Religion profane prove reason Reli religious scoffers Scripture Secondly sense Septuagint shew side sort soul Speculative Atheism spirit Strabo supposed supposition temporal testimony thing is capable thou tion tradition concerning true tural understanding universal deluge universal tradition unreasonable wicked wise
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Sivu 2 - When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Sivu 150 - Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Sivu 63 - ... happen to make the exact picture of a man ? And is a man easier made by chance than his picture? How long might twenty thousand blind men, which should be sent out from the several remote parts of England, wander up and down before they would all meet upon Salisbury Plains, and fall into rank and file in the exact order of an army? And yet this is much more easy to be imagined, than how the innumerable blind parts of matter should rendezvous themselves into a world.
Sivu 149 - I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance ; that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Sivu 110 - How sadly will the man be disappointed when he finds all things otherwise than he had stated and determined them in this world ! When he comes to appear before that God whom he hath denied, and against whom he...
Sivu 23 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Sivu 150 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Sivu 62 - I appeal to any man of reason whether any thing can be more unreasonable than obstinately to impute an effect to chance, which 'carries in the very face of it all the arguments and characters of a wise design and contrivance.
Sivu 23 - Christ, and of his duty, all this would be but an impertinent vanity, and a more glittering kind of ignorance...
Sivu 106 - I think the world was made FOR one, And men are born FOR kings, as beasts FOR men ?" [ie Shall I think that one man was the Cause why the world was made ; that kings are the Cause why men were born ; as men are the Cause why there are beasts?]